[UA] The Prestige

[James Knevitt]

On 10/30/06, Robert Rossney <rbr at well.com> wrote:
> I just want to reiterate what someone else (can't remember who now,
> sorry) posted to this list a week or so back:  from a UA standpoint, THE
> PRESTIGE has it all:  crazed obsession, Nikola Tesla, horrific
> sacrifices, a very mysterious pile of absolutely identical top hats,
> journals written in code, deaths by drowning, lost memories, and even,
> in one near-throwaway line uttered by a minor character somewhere around
> the beginning of the third act, a hint that something we'd recognize as
> the Occult Underground exists.  It's also just astonishingly good.

I saw it with my wife on the weekend, and while it's not exactly what
the trailer makes it out to be, it's still very, very good. Pray tell,
what was that throwaway line? I must have missed it.



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James Knevitt
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
  I took the one less traveled by,
 And that has made all the difference."
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